hand-written baseball correspondence – Baseball by The Letters https://www.baseballbytheletters.com Hand-written memories from those who lived The Game! Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:06:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 22759191 Your letter in the Baseball Hall of Fame? It’s possible! https://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2016/10/17/your-letter-in-the-baseball-hall-of-fame-its-possible/ https://www.baseballbytheletters.com/2016/10/17/your-letter-in-the-baseball-hall-of-fame-its-possible/#respond Tue, 18 Oct 2016 01:57:36 +0000 http://www.baseballbytheletters.com/?p=4106 Read more]]> Don Sutton has another unique tie to the Hall of Fame, this one being hand-written! (Photo credit: Adam Fagen/Wikimedia Commons)
Don Sutton has another unique tie to the Hall of Fame, this one being hand-written! (Photo credit: Adam Fagen/Wikimedia Commons)

A collector, part of Cooperstown? 

That’s one fascinating possibility lurking within the correspondence collection kept by the National Baseball Hall of Fame research library. The 25-page list produces many surprises, none of which may be on public display.

Everyone knows that Hall of Famer Don Sutton has been a reluctant by-mail signer for years. Well, the HOF owns a hand-written letter from the pitcher, offering advice to a young player in 1966. An article from the period documents the exchange.

Players like Jackie Robinson saved letters of support from fans. Browsing the list, I found one fan wrote Robinson six times from 1952-55.

Sure, the archive includes lots of business letters: owners, commissioners, journalists. 

However, none of those official missives would match a single hand-written bit of correspondence between players and fans.

That’s the joy of Baseball By The Letters.

 

Click to access BA+MSS+44+Correspondence+Collection.pdf

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